Well I am back!
The visit went quick but it was good to see my Mom. She was/is still in the hospital and we are not sure when she will be released. The 2nd week of her chemo run really did a number on her. On Friday 8/27 they stopped the 5fu. On Saturday 8/28 she was hospitalized. She had irratractable vomiting. It lasted for 5 days and it was incontrolably coming out of her mouth, nose, and feeding tube. They have been feeding her intravenously since. They just reintroduced feeding her through her jpeg yesterday with a very slow drip pump. She is tolerating that ok now with the help of the Zofran. She has terrible IMRT burns all around her neck like a collar, her hands are all black and blue with gashes opening up on the palms (from the chemo), she has mucositis, thrush, and possibly another internal infection brewing. Her whites are around 1000 making her severly neutropenic. They did give her a blood transfusion (2bags)on Thursday. But she is still having a very slow recovery from this last blast of chemo (cisplatin & 5fu-they removed the docetaxel this time due to previous reaction). It is official that they have decided to not finish her chemo. She did 2 out of the 4 that was prescribed. She has gotten too toxic. She has 2more days of IMRT left (double doses). But that has been on hold for over a week now due to her condition. They are hoping to be able to get them in on Tuesday. I have taken some serious issues with some of the treatment she has received and I will post about that later. I need to spend some time with my 3 & 7 yr old daughters now. It is the first time that I ever left them and they are in need of some attention. But I just had to check in with you guys. I missed reading everyone's post while I was gone. I hope many of you are enjoying the holiday weekend.
Thanks
Tami